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Janis Joplin

American,  Musician
Total Quotes : 26
Rock And Roll Roll Threw

All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that was it. I never wanted to do anything else.

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Intelligence Questions Lot

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

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Strength Notes Maybe

Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it.

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Yourself Compromise Got

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

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People Weird Those

I'm one of those regular weird people.

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Hippie Guess Might

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

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Love Different People Go

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

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Love Feel Gigantic

When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.

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Singing How About

I can't talk about my singing. I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

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Always Other Read

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

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Love Go Go Home

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

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Misery About Polite

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.

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Like Miserable Singers

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

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Love Need Been

I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.

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Mercedes Lord Buy

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

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Sometimes Back Rather

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

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Know Settle You

Who you are is what you settle for, you know?

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Badly Arthur Treated

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

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Own Used Very

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

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Someone Old Lady Old

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

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